Two years after Walt Disney Co. opened its new part in France‚ Euro Disney was losing $1 million per day‚ despite over a million visitors per month. What had gone wrong? Disney was overly ambitious‚ and had made serious strategic and financial miscalculations. It relied too heavily on debt‚ just as interest rates started to rise. It assumed a real estate boom would continue‚ allowing it to see some properties to pay off its debts. It made mistakes in the park itself‚ including cost overruns
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Case Analysis 1: Harvard Business School Case #9693013 Euro Disney: The First 100 Days Euro Disney’s first few months in operation has already shown signs of mediocre profits and not living up to the success of its parks counterparts in the U.S. and Tokyo. There are a number of items Disney must attend to in order to make Euro Disney a success. For one‚ Disney must deal with the conflicting cultural aspects of its park attractions and service. Another is getting local residents as repeat guests
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countries (such as Greece) that were not members of the gold standard. Under the gold standard‚ European peripheral countries ran current account deficits‚ but the size of those deficits was small relative to those experienced by Greece under the euro. They were small because fiscal shocks were smaller and‚ more importantly‚ because the adjustment mechanism while imperfect‚ worked to mitigate the buildup of external imbalances. Second‚ adherence to a hard peg is no panacea and cannot be sustained
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Should the UK adopt the Euro? The movement from the sterling to the euro has been debate for a number of years. The transition has been overlooked in many factors including the economy‚ politics and sovereignty. There have been various views by many political bodies for and against the change over to the euro. ‘Joining the euro would almost certainly mean better conditions for businesses considering long-term investment in Britain.’ (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3008201.stm). From the
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Applied Economics‚ The euro debate • Donnelly‚ B (2000)‚ “UK’s prosperity outside the euro”‚ The Times‚ London‚ Feb. 1‚ 2000. • Taylor‚ C (2001)‚ “Strains in the eurozone: Economic divergences within Europe may in time force some countries out of the common currency”‚ Financial Times‚ London‚ July 30‚ 2001. • Wren-Lewis‚ S (2000)‚ University of Exeter‚ “The Economics of EMU”‚ New Economy by Peter Robinson‚ London‚ 2000 • Wolf‚ M (2001)‚ “Nobody can know whether euro benefits would be clear”
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Being a staff assistant to the Euro Disney president‚ a grand inaugural will be considered highly important. The maximum hype that the place is going to achieve is during the opening days. While we take all the efforts to bring in a big mass of people‚ it is also our responsibility to keep them with us for the future business. For the same reason price skimming and expensive accommodation is not recommended to an extent. Making the people experience what we have to offer is more important than setting
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| Euro Versus the U.S. Dollar | | | | | | | | Some financial analysts forecast the U.S. dollar will depreciate further against the Euro throughout 2011 and 2012. In actuality‚ there is a consensus projecting that the Euro will actually depreciate further against the dollar‚ not vice versa. The Euro’s decline manifested last year and has since seen a decline as recent as this week. Future traders have publicly talked about how the Eurozone has too many issues with countries
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From my perspective‚ EURUSD could be staged for a continued decline over the coming days or weeks. According to the fundamental analysis‚ the euro exchange rates are expected to depreciate in the long-run. Although there was a short uptrend during last week‚ which was driven by yields‚ the investors worry more about deflation and the euro’s resilience. What’s more‚ the ECB rates are highly expected to be cut after ECB’s policy meeting on Thursday. The market is expecting a 25bps reduction in the
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Euro Disneyland Case Study 1. INTRODUCTION: The primary objective of this case analysis is to evaluate the proposed Euro Disneyland (EDL) project by applying Capital Budgeting techniques such as Net Present Value‚ analyze financial and economic risks‚ measure exposures of Euro Disneyland (EDL) such as economic exposure‚ transaction exposure and translation exposure‚ and develop strategies to mitigate these exposures. The case findings reveal that Disney should invest in Euro Disneyland taking
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1 Introduction Euro Disney ’s Plans and Reality When the International Offer of Shares for the Euro Disneyland S.C.A. (in the following called Euro Disney) was published in October 1989 the plans for this new enterprise of the Walt Disney group were ambiguous. The financial plans for the first year of operation projected total revenues of FF 5‚482 million and a net profit after taxation of FF 204 million. For the following years the development should be even more impressive. At that time the
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